Items tagged “figures”
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Osseointegrated implant
Osseointegrated implants (OI) are endosteal implants characterized by porous surfaces that allow a direct structural connection between bone and implant without interposed soft tissue and ingrowth and interdigitation of the newly formed lamellar bone.
Osseointegration has been defined as direct...
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Transcatheter mitral valve intervention
Transcatheter mitral valve interventions (TMVI) or percutaneous mitral valve interventions are less-invasive, highly technical procedures available for the management of selected patients with mitral valve regurgitation and include several transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) and transcathet...
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Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy
Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC) also known as percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy (PMBC), percutaneous mitral valvotomy (PMV) or percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty (PMBV) is a transcatheter procedure for the management of mitral stenosis.
History and etymology
Percutaneo...
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Prosthetic valve thrombosis
Prosthetic valve thrombosis, valve thrombosis or leaflet thrombosis refers to thrombus formation of any component of a prosthetic heart valve and is a cause of prosthetic valve dysfunction and a potentially reversible complication of valvular surgery 1,2.
Subclinical leaflet thrombosis is an en...
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Long head of biceps tendon
The long head of the biceps tendon (LHBT) is the proximal tendon of the long head of the biceps muscle and encircles the humeral head on its course. It has an intraarticular extrasynovial and an extraarticular portion.
Summary
location: shoulder
insertion: supraglenoid tubercle of the scapula...
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Reduced leaflet motion
Reduced leaflet motion refers to an abnormally decreased mobility of one or more valvular leaflets and is a phenomenon that has been observed after (transcatheter) implantation of prosthetic heart valves and gained clinical significance for the diagnosis of subclinical leaflet thrombosis.
Epide...
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Atrioventricular block
Atrioventricular block, AV block or heart block is a conduction disturbance and a type of arrhythmia where the impulse transmission between the cardiac atria and ventricles is either transiently or permanently delayed or completely blocked 1.
Epidemiology
Atrioventricular block can be found in...
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Ventricular arrhythmia
Ventricular arrhythmias are potentially very dangerous cardiac arrhythmias arising from the cardiac ventricles that require immediate attention and medical care and include the following rhythms:
premature ventricular complexes
ventricular tachycardia
torsades de pointes
ventricular flutter
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Scalene muscles
The scalene muscles are a group of three closely related neck muscles.
anterior scalene muscles
middle scalene muscles
posterior scalene muscles
Summary
origin: transverse processes of mid to lower cervical vertebrae (C2-C7).
insertion: first or second ribs. The anterior and middle insert...
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Acceleration index
Acceleration index is an indirect sonographic sign to assess renal artery stenosis 1.
Usage
Acceleration index is used in the Doppler assessment of the renal arteries when assessing for renal artery stenosis.
Measurement
Acceleration index is calculated by subtracting the initial systolic ve...